Candied Pecans

Name: Candied Pecans
Yield: Makes about 11/2 cups/200 grams Pecans
Ingredients: Fleur de sel or Maldon salt; Cayenne pepper (optional); 2 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar; Fleur de sel or Maldon salt; ¼ cup/60 milliliters corn syrup; 4 tablespoons/55 grams butter; 1½ cups/170 grams roughly chopped pecans

Preparation info

Makes about
11/2
cups Pecans

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ruhlman's Twenty

By Michael Ruhlman

Published 2011

About

Ingredients

1½ cups/170 grams roughly chopped pecans
¼ cup/60

Confectionery
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C/gas 4.

Put the pecans in a basket strainer and sift out any nut dust. Combine the corn syrup, butter, and brown sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. When the butter has melted, add the pecans and stir to coat.

Spread the pecans on